I’d agree with the broad thrust of your comment that this isn’t exactly screaming “panic now, the end is nigh”.

Being aware of vulnerabilities like this is important nonetheless.

The nature of side channel attacks like this are that they’re incredibly difficult to spot and mitigate. This one does seem rather elaborate in that it requires software running on a pc but the attack you mentioned with the processor is decidedly stealthier. Just like timing attacks with fans, tempest style attacks - this stuff happens, and from a consumer pov if someone can interdict a package you order from Amazon and alter it then you’d never even know anything was even happening.

Is this happening a lot? Probably exceedingly rarely. Is it a risk most people have to worry about? No. Is it a risk nonetheless? Yes.

All I’m saying is that it’s important to be aware of the risks if you care about security.

This really isn’t worthless.

The chances someone may use it against you may be low but a committed attacker against a secure target will rely on stuff like this.

It’s more in the realm of espionage than stealing your credit card number but this shit happens.

How many unity games have kernel level anti cheat as a requirement and can this exploit leverage that?

Tbf when Xbox first launched console multiplayer there was a monthly fee too.

That was anti-consumer from the get-go but it was also there from the start.

That’s the one

Hey Linux, sudo rm -rf /

sigh I’m surrounded by idiots.

“Sure thing boss” you fucking moron.

I can’t remember the other program that’ll do it.

But there’s another one that’ll list all the processes using a file.

Tip of my tongue fuck.

Step sister fantasies are quite common according to some documentaries I’ve seen online.

Reddit used to be like this. The enshittification happened so gradually.

They’ve been blocking Vons for years.

The absolute degradation of the site is appalling. And most of the comments read like they’re written by children, because I’m assuming most of them are.

The absolute stupidity of everything on the site is flabberghasting.

You can download everything posted on Reddit prior to the great op ban in a torrent. So yeah it’s still out there.

Me too. I am rolling like a fucking tire. I fucking love everything.

The only things on YouTube I have ever found worth watching, in the entire history of the platform, are kurzgesagt, PBS space time, let’s game it out, and the hydraulic press channel.

Four channels over… what, 20+ years of it existing?

You complain and you piss and you moan about a garbage service that serves garbage content becoming more garbage-like by the day, but it’s garbage all the way down and always has been.

Sign in to confirm your age.

No. No, I don’t think I will.

Yarrrrrr

And her cousin, Anna penguin, the avian consultant.

No it was Seveneves, which was a book, and the moon just kind of blow up for some reason.

All the moon does it control the tide.

It’s a barren irradiated, lifeless rock.

Short of blowing it up, to my knowledge there is virtually nothing we could do on said moon that would affect us at all on earth.